Keywords: Patent #1
Item 23402
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1876 Location: Worcester Media: Ink on paper
Item 28440
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1917-02-06 Location: Portland Media: Ink on paper, ribbon
Item 66069
155-157 Noyes Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Cora B. Barstow Use: Store
Exhibit
Northern Threads: Civil War-era clothing
An exhibit vignette within "Northern Threads, Part 1," featuring American Civil War civilian and military clothing, 1860 to 1869.
Exhibit
Colonial Cartography: The Plymouth Company Maps
The Plymouth Company (1749-1816) managed one of the very early land grants in Maine along the Kennebec River. The maps from the Plymouth Company's collection of records constitute some of the earliest cartographic works of colonial America.
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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 1 of 4
"When the bounds of the patent were surveyed, it was discovered that Foxwell and Watts had instead settled within what was then called Black Point."
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"… Alan Taylor observed: In 1800 the Pejepscot Patent's settlers complained that "each claimant comes producing pompus Parchmints of royal patents or…"
